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10 day challenge

Hey guys, I hope you are all good. Well I have been nominated by Zoe over at Fashionista Studios to do this 10 day challenge. For each of the 10 days I will be adding a blog post and today’s is 10 secrets about me. Let’s get started.
1. I used to be a dancer!
It may be hard to visualise but from the age of 3 to the end of my high school I was a dancer with Bernadette Heys in Marsden, Huddersfield. I wasn’t very good mind! (lol) due to my disastrous co-ordination skills, but I gave it a good go.
2. I can’t ride a bike!
I know many people will say “what you can’t ride a bike” and the short answer is no! I learnt to ride as a child with stabilisers but when they were taken off I couldn’t get the hang of the balancing, give me a scooter any day of the week (lower to the floor). My boyfriend has taken the long and tedious task of trying to teach me. I have a rather nice bruise on my lower back to prove I went on it!
3. I still have cuddly toys!
For valentines day 2013 my boyfriend bought me a gorgeous soft toy dog and she is always on my bed because to me she is special. Its the first present he bought me.
4. I wanted to be a vet!
When I was little, I really wanted to be a vet. Then i decided to go to University to study web design!
5. My all time favourite actor is Channing Tatum!
Well who wouldn’t like this hunk? I love watching him in all the films he has been in. The recent one of White House Down to the Dear John with Amanda Seyfried. He is a hunk!
6. I loved watching World War Z!
I am not a big fan of movies like this, so when my friend Lydia said we were watching this at the cinema I was like “oh no”. I loved it and can now watch it without jumping, the secret is I have watched it so many times I know what is coming!
7. I love dogs!
Many people in my family and close friends know that when I was small a dog jumped up at me and I have been scared ever since but now I have hit my 20s I find I am not scared of many of them. My godparents have a dog and she is the softest thing ever. My boyfriend’s sister used to have a staffy and that was so soft!
8. I’m half Scouse!
Although I was born and bred in Yorkshire, I am also half Liverpudlian. My mother is a scouser but has lived in Yorkshire for over 20 years and has lost her accent.
9. I love watching football!
Any type of football, Premier League, Saturday League, Women’s League!
10. I’m a hoarder!
This is one which I don’t like to admit, but I am. I’m slowly clearing my stuff as I’m decorating the other room in my parents house to move into.
Hope you all liked this post. Check back tomorrow to see my nine loves.
I also nominated Jennie Emma at Jennie Emma to do her posts.
Speak Soon

 

Dieting or just cutting down?

Hey guys,

Hope your weekend is going great. Well I have been inspired to try a different approach to my own way of life and my own lifestyle choices. Since I was small, I have battled with a little bit of a weight problem (not major but I know its there!).

I was watching on Youtube earlier on this week how Marlena from MakeupGeek lost over 100 pounds for her lifestyle change and thought I would try it myself (although maybe not the 100 pounds).

I’ve always had a go at the dieting, eating salads and all that but it never once helped me lose the weight I wanted to. So I’ve gone for a different approach and I feel a little better about myself. The approach I am going to be taking is cutting down step by step. So the first thing will be to cut sugar from my drinks. Now even though I’m cutting out the sugar in drinks, I do have orange juice in a morning but this is without any of the added sugars and most of my drinks during the day are purely water from the tap.

You can visit Marlena on her YouTube Channel for Makeup Geeks.

Anyway its just a quick one from me tonight

Libby Claire x

 

 

Lifestyle Review- Amazon Prime vs Netflix

Hey guys,

Sorry I haven’t posted in like a week, I’ve been really busy. Well in this blog, I have decided to review two of the main streaming websites of 2015, Netflix & Amazon Prime. Both of which I have tried for a month’s free trial.

Netflix
Well lets start with Netflix. I started this last year with a free trial for 30 days and I found it really easy to use due to its simple interface. For your free trial you have to pick between one of their three different packages, Basic, Standard & Premium. The difference between them is one of the number of screens you can watch it on at the same time. With basic you can just watch on 1 screen, Standard on 2 and Premium on 4 screens at anyone time. All their packages allow you to watch on either laptop, mobile or tablet. I used mine through my Xbox 360 and also had the standard package of 2 screens for my free trial.

When my free trial had finished, I transferred from the Standard package of £6.99 a month to the Premium package of £8.99 a month. Netflix however allow you to up or down grade anytime.

On Netflix, there is a wide selection of TV programmes ranging from American shows such as House of Cards to English documentaries such as Educating Yorkshire. However the movies on Netflix is a wide selection of older movies.

Advantages of Netflix:

  • No contract- cancel on-line whenever you like.
  • A number of TV shows which have been exclusively given to Netflix such as the hit drama Breaking Bad.
  • Can play on 4 different screens at any one time.

Disadvantages of Netflix:

  • Can be expensive if on premium £8.99 * 12 months = £107.88
  • While there is a wide range of movies, variety is limited due to only a number of newer film.
Amazon Prime
For the last month, I have been using Amazon Prime for a couple of reasons. It’s interface is again easy to use as with Netflix. It contains different genres which allow you to find the TV shows and movies that you want quickly and easily.
There are four different benefits with Amazon Prime, one of which drew me to it first of all. It was the Unlimited One-Day Delivery. This allows me to purchase thousands of items from Amazon’s website and will get it the day after (ordering Monday-Friday, if ordered Saturday will receive Monday). It also gives you access to thousands of TV Shows and movies which can be streamed to your PC, games console, tablet and mobile.

 

Amazon Prime have a wider selection of movies which also contains newer movies which have been in the cinemas in the last year.
Amazon also seems to have more episodes in some television series, for example Educating Yorkshire, has all 9 episodes. Netflix only has 8.
After the free trial finishes with Amazon Prime, you have a one off payment of £79 for the year which includes your Unlimited One-Day Delivery and Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Advantages of Amazon Prime:
  • Wider selection of Movies, newer movies such as Leap Year and Divergent.
  • Cheaper than Netflix over the year, £79 for year
  • Unlimited One-Day Delivery (Monday-Friday)
  • Wider range of series in Television Dramas.
Disadvantages of Amazon Prime:
  • Once paid you have to continue with Amazon for the year.
  • Some items do not have Prime delivery attached to them.
  • Only can view on 2 technologies at once.
After using both of these products for the free trial and a month or so I have decided to stick with Amazon Prime. In my opinion it has the best choice of movies and TV shows because the majority of shows on Netflix are also on Amazon (with the exception of Breaking Bad).
I also have chosen this one because of the unlimited one-day delivery. I ordered a book for my boyfriend a couple of weeks ago at 4 pm on the Sunday and it had arrived by 11am on the Monday morning.
Anyway guys, thanks for reading and I will post another one later in the weekend.
Libby-Claire x
 

Change of Blog

Hey guys,

Well I have decided that after a few weeks of just my blog being about fashion and make-up I’m going to change my focus and take it to being more of a lifestyle blog.

As many people know I follow Football. I have done since the age of 13 when I accompanied my dad to Huddersfield Town’s match against Cambridge United in 2004. From then on I have for my sins followed Huddersfield Town and in recent years AFC Emley. This is where I will be tonight. Watching 90 minutes of football with some laughs along the way.

So with this blog my main aim is to try and help people understand a bit about me. I have never really been a full on girly girly. More a tomboy, but in the last few months I finally found my girly side. Even if that includes a cold Tuesday night trip to watch football. I do that because I enjoy it!

I just wanted to send a really big shout out to the people who keep AFC Emley floating along.

So anyway its time to get the thermals on and head out to watch the football because right now I’m loving watching Emley! I can’t wait!!

P.S also a push to my dad’s football blog. jl195480.blogspot.co.uk

Libby Claire x

Bloglovin

Hey guys

Just a quick one to say about BlogLovin.

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Libby Claire

Thank you

Hey guys

This is just a quick post as I’m posting my proper post tomorrow. This one is just a quick thank you to Jennie from Jennie Emma because this blog wouldn’t have started without her encouragement to just post what I wanted. So if you would like to view her blog please visit www.jennieemma.co.uk
See you guys tomorrow for a post about hair styling
Libby Claire x